January 09, 1847

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Features

Rotary Bellows

To the Inventors of the United States

Departments

Departments

The Irish Emigrant's Lament

Jokes and Quaintisms

Geographical Hymn

Errors of the Press

A Considerable Army

Road through Missouri

Emigration of Paupers

Post-Office Regulations

Appearances are Deceptive

Sliding down Hill

Recent Fires

Plums

Lake Superior

An Owl Trap

Foolish Management

Wood Paving for Wheels

Beauty employed to Advantage

An Excellent Project

What Queer Authority

Retaliation

Perfectly Right

Omens of 1847

Iron War Vessels

A Curious Fact

Wanting Men back again

Very Reasonable

A New Fire Ship

Steamboat wheel

Battle of the Bees

Captain Dustan

Goddard's Combined Waterwheel

Cold in the Southern Hemisphere

Winter

New Iron-Work

Suppression of the Smoke of Furnaces

Decrease of Waters on the Lakes

Ship Building

Letter Printing Telegraph

Thurber's Chirographer

Painting on Glass

On the Manufacture of Steel

New Musical Instrument

More Explosives

Patent Forges

New Window Spring

Ireland Coming

Valuable Intelligence

Quere

To New Subscribers

Gun Cotton

Constant Miracles

The Wood of the Locust Tree

Present to the Queen

Shovel Handle Manufactory

Flying Cotton

The Spirit of the Age

A New Invention Wanted

The Mechanics' Journal

Remarkable Re-Animation

The Brig Somers

University of the City of New York

Loadstone on Lake Superior

Live Steak

A Heart-rending Scene

Partiality

Carrying the Mail

Extensive Iron Railway Bridge and Via Duct

National Superstition

Important from the Army

Important Intelligence

To Correspondents

Growth of Cincinnati

Severe Casualty

The Farmer and Mechanic

A Female Lothario

The Cincinnati Brick Machine

Improvements in Embossing, &C

Scientific Memoranda

Persian Mechanics

Scientific American

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